"Dear Steve, I saw a patient this morning with your book [in hand] and highlights throughout. She loves it and finds it very useful to help her in dealing with atrial fibrillation."

Dr. Wilber Su Cavanaugh Heart Center, Phoenix, AZ

"Your book [Beat Your A-Fib] is the quintessential most important guide not only for the individual experiencing atrial fibrillation and his family, but also for primary physicians, and cardiologists."

"Steve Ryan's summaries of the Boston A-Fib Symposium are terrific. Steve has the ability to synthesize and communicate accurately in clear and simple terms the essence of complex subjects. This is an exceptional skill and a great service to patients with atrial fibrillation."

Dr. Jeremy Ruskin of Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

"Steve, your website was so helpful. Thank you! After two ablations I am now A-fib free. You are a great help to a lot of people, keep up the good work."

Terry Traver, former A-Fib patient

"If you want to do some research on AF go to A-Fib.com by Steve Ryan, this site was a big help to me, and helped me be free of AF."

Roy Salmon Patient, A-Fib Free; pacemakerclub.com, Sept. 2013

Heart Team/MAM 2016: Moving A-Fib Care to a New Level

Totally historic! The MAM 2016 symposium set important goals for shaping the future of A-Fib care and showed how the emphasis on a ‘Heart Team’ is moving the field of patient A-Fib care to a new level.

This first Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting (MAM) was held in Zurich, Switzerland Sept 15-16, 2016 and advocated for a team approach―EPs, Surgeons, and other healthcare professionals working together to better help the A-Fib patient.

Leading cardiologists and surgeons explained why they favored the hybrid surgery/ablation referred to by several terms: “hybrid simultaneous,” or “hybrid staged,” or “multidisciplinary sequential approaches”.

MAM 2016 Hands-on demos

Interactive Hands-On Workshops and Live Surgery

MAM 2016 featured interactive workshops with hands-on experiences in EP ablation, Surgical Ablation, and Mechanical Exclusion of the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA). Included were working examples of clinicians, electrophysiologists and surgeons teaming up to better help A-Fib patients.

Live video feed of A-Fib surgery by Dr. Stefano Benussi and staff

Observing via a live video feed, attendees watched Dr. Stefano Benussi and his colleagues perform a surgery of an A-Fib patient showing both the left side and right side approaches. (The patient had a huge amount of fat which first had to be cut away before the pericardium sac could be reached and cut into in order to access the heart and pulmonary veins.)

MAM 2016 Program and Faculty

Dr. Stefano Benussi and Steve Ryan, PhD

The Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting was the brain child of the Course Director Dr. Stefano Benussi of the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Course Co-Directors were Harry Crijins of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Firat Duru of Zurich, Switzerland.

The Program Committee and Scientific Faculty making presentations included 54 distinguished doctors from around the world including the famed inventor of the original Cox Maze operation, James L. Cox of Denver, USA. (The Cox Maze operation was the first treatment to make patients A-Fib free.)

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